Re: RAT The Sassies!!!!

[Audie McCall <audiemccall@yahoo.com>]

Possibly my favorite irony-- so long as we're making
lists-- is reductive arguments against reductivism.

--- Christinavela@cs.com wrote:
>  I agree that while Marquez does not fit exactly
> into the genre of 
> influential playwrights of our time, his phenomenal
> body of work has brought 
> to the forefront a genre in literature
> that was practically invisible before he won the
> Nobel Prize . He has 
> inspired other writers to adapt his material for the
> stage, and to recreate 
> with their original works, 
> a world view that is distinctively, but not
> exclusively,  Latin-American, 
> more widely recognized as "magic realism". It is
> unfortunate that  we (and I 
> include myself) in the US, are not more informed or
> interested in the rare 
> jewels of theater which do exist beyond(and to the
> south) of our country's 
> borders. And to say that Marquez is not influential
> simply because he does 
> not influence American theater directly is a sad
> indicator that, for all its 
> proximity, Latin-American culture is still reduced
> to an enchilada
> platter at Uncle Julio's.
> 
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